Do you live the life of an artist who deserves to be sacrificed?
“The Writing Life”, like the final escape experience, says it tests at every level, “says author Stephanie Elliwando Grist. You are constantly facing rejection – in addition to how you will pay bills? “
now Mr At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Elliundo Grerest graduated a new book, “Art is above everything: a primary exploration of international women of weddings and torment in creative life.”
In this, you travel to 10 countries and interviews with writers, artists and performance artists from all over the world who have devoted their lives to creative endeavors. From Mexico to Qatar, from Rwanda to New Zealand, Elliundo Grist asks the question: Is it worth seeking art?
Elliwondo Greens tied her own experience to follow the writing profession. Although she was working constantly, she did not have a stable job, nor 401 (k) and there is no health insurance. Although she traveled all over the world, she did not have her own home: she was an educated adult woman who sometimes returned with her parents and slept in her childhood bedroom.
She even did not even have her table tools until she was in the early 1940s.
“I haven’t been subjected to this life, but my fate was a fate I chose, but not without serious consequences that became more clear to me as I am old,” said Ellcndo Grist in an interview with NBC News. “Art Above everything” is not a guide, it’s more than prayer if you have already done this … there is hope, there is a reason and you are not alone. “
Elysindo Grey, 51, from Corpus Christie, Texas. It is the author of many books, including “About the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana” (2004) “Mexican enough” (2008) and “All angels and saints” (2017). I wrote to New York Times and Washington PostIts prizes include a Margolis Award For social justice reports and the South Western Pen Award for Book. She wanted to write and travel and did so – leading thousands of miles across the United States, for example, to write about the history of the nation when it worked on an educational website.
Life of “Monk of Art”
Elysundo Introduction to presentation Readers for the concept of “Monk of Art”, an idea that came to when she spent time at a Catholic prayer house in South Texas. The residents of the house took promises of poverty, chastity and obedience. “I did something somewhat similar to being an artist. I have been late for my fertility to follow my writing projects,” she recalls.
“But as soon as I arrived at the 1940s, I realized that there were consequences to do so. So I decided, if I would continue this path of ascetic, you needed to find other Clants in the dark,” I wrote.
For “Art Above everything”, Ellindo Grrest spent a contract in an interview of 70 artists, including Readed ballet dancer Windy Willian, The best -selling author Sandra Ciseniros, Rwandi theatrical writer We hope for a decree, A famous Indian dancer Suruba Sen and others. Along the way, she chose her stomach in Havana, and was educated on the Middle Ages in Iceland and wandered through the parliament building in Romania.
Publishers weekly to praise “Art is above everything” as “inspiring” and “a strong testimony for the value of following one’s passion.”
Ellisndo Grist made a decision to focus on female artists because women are active actresses. Piece with less than its value across Majors In the world of art. She said that it was not until the seventies of the last century, when women in textbooks mentioned in the history of visual art, and women deny leadership roles routinely Main arts Organizations. The current political climate, in which diversity, stocks, inclusiveness, or Dei, was, The government is targetingThe existing gender variations can be established.
“Creative life is never easy. It is not a simple way … but it is a path that has enormous rewards and allows one to meet a vision,” Sherrill Orring told NBC News. Its headquarters in Philadelphia And one of the artists that Elliundo Grist met, Orange is famous for “I would like to say” a project, She travels to the country that wears her clothes as minister to treat the era in the 1960s and writes people’s messages to the president on an ancient writer machine.
Ouring indicated that some of the financing that artists relied traditionally – Like grants From the national endowment of the arts – it was cut or at risk of eliminating it.
“Many organizations, non -profit organizations and museums are concerned about their existence in particular,” Orange. “There is a simultaneous concern about showing art that may be seen as controversial. So it is a really difficult time for artists, but this makes our work more important.”
All sexes share the difficulty of winning a living through the arts. “His work can be” a rotation-but you discover how to work and keep yourself. It is not a profession with a linear path, and you have to accept it. ”
If people give themselves only a few years to achieve success as a lead, it is likely that it will happen, because it requires time and patience.
Because RIOS also works as an audio actor, he is concerned about Increased use of artificial intelligence technology In the entertainment industry. He said: “But you just have to stick to it, to know that you are in it for a long time.”
like Cisenros “It takes a lot of courage to face societal expectations, gender expectations, and cultural expectations. We have to invent Camino (the road). It is a political option.”
Live the most “creative life”
For Elilezondo, her sincerity helped her in the end of the day through some of the greatest challenges in her life – including the epidemic, her father’s death and a catastrophic disease.
“There was a moment when I started to rethink my life, when I was not sure whether I would continue to live a life, due to this (cancer) diagnosis,” you remember. “I realized that, thank God, I chose this path, because everything I wanted to do is to travel around the world and write about it, and I did that … I had no remorse.”
It was the art that enabled Ellisndo Grist to persevere through crises. The notes accumulate for them during chemotherapy and coffeed clorts. “The sacrifices I made to be an artist in the bulk of the fluctuations that I suffered in the twenties and thirties of the last century,” you write, “therefore, art has become a major technician for my self during the disturbance of the 1940s.
After I started a National Book TourShe believes that art can help people live through fear, shock and uncertainty.
“Something deep, beautiful and powerful about art is that it really teaches you that all we have is this moment,” said Elliundo Grist. “If art is the place where you feel satisfied, then this is the way you must fill it, to live your most creative life and make it glorious.”
“Yes”, she adds, “Today I have table tools!”
